Re: www/chromium NOT_FOR_BULK_PLATFORM

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:
> Just a heads-up that I will be adding NOT_FOR_BULK_PLATFORM=* to my bulk
> builds for www/chromium.  It takes just short of 66 hours(!) to build on
> my:
>
>    cpu15: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz"
>    hw.usermem64 = 68678144000
>
> build host, and given the huge number of dependencies it has, it is
> almost guaranteed that it will need to be rebuilt on every run.
>
> For reference, the second longest build time is libreoffice at a mere 11
> hours.
>
> Anyway, in case you are wondering why it is missing from my reports and
> binary package repository.  This obviously doesn't affect anyone else's
> builds, and is perhaps something that others may want to do to ensure
> timely reports.

Does this mean that the official TNF bulk builds are also not going to
have Chromium packages? If so, that would be bad. With the size of
Chromium, this is the one package where I would always prefer a binary
if there was one.

-- 
Benny